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"Vegeta, you're joking, right?" Goku hesitantly asked with hope glimmering faintly in the back of his mind. The prince's idle stare was answer enough, but still, there was that chance. "Vegeta?" he asked again, feeling a shiver run up his spine from the sudden drop in body heat.

"I don't think I have a sense of humor anymore," the brunette informed, or admitted, Goku couldn't tell which. His eyes narrowed suspiciously before they hardened into a glare, finishing his thought, "And I don't like what you're insinuating." That took the younger man aback.

Curiosity got the best of him, and he replied, "What do you mean? I wasn't insinuating anything."

"You imply that I know those people!" Vegeta shot back, looking offended, "Look, if I'm dead, fine. Tell me. I can take it. I don't care."

Goku merely gaped while grasping desperately for something to say. There was nothing until the shock wore off. "I didn't lie to you," Goku reaffirmed what he had said the previous day, "You aren't dead, and this isn't Heaven."

"Hmm," Vegeta said in response. An uneasy silence crept upon them and it stole any trace of comfort.